Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1873 — General News Summary. THE OLD WORLD. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary. THE OLD WORLD.

The Shah of Persia reached Liverpool on a special train from London on the 26th. He was received with great honors by the dignitaries of the city and county. A Constantinople dispatch of the 24th says a treaty had been concluded between the Khedive and the Sultan for mutual protection, by which the former, in case of the invasion of Turkey, agrees to provide 150,000 troops. A dispatch was published in St. Petersburg on the 26th, from Tashkend, announcing that the Khan of Khiva had capitulated to the Russian forces, and the capital was occupied by the Czar’s troops. Senor Rubio has been appointed Spanish Minister to London. In his credentials Rubio is styled “ the Representative of Spain to England,” instead of “to Her Majesty the Queen of England.” AH the representatives of Spain to the powers which have not recognized tlic Republic are similarly accredited. UZT Japan fanners are advised by the newspapers of that country to use the labor-saving agricultural machinery produced by the United States. A Berlin dispatch of the 27th says tlie Emperor William had recovered from His recent illness. A recent election in Bath, England, for Member of the House of Commons, resulted in the’ success of Lord Grey de Wilton, Conservative, who received 2,194 votes to 2,143 for hisliberal opponent, Mr. Hayter. A dispatcli from Central-Asia, received on the27th, announces that the Khan of Khivasurrendered unconditionally to the Russian troops before the Capital, after General Kaufman had rejected twelve proposals for capitulation made with treacherous intent< —- —• Hiram Powers, the distinguished American sculptor, died at Florence, Italy, on the 27th, after a lingering illness. A new Spanish Ministry was named on the 27th by President Margall, but the next day, before the Cortes had time to act on the nominations, the Minister of Marine (Senor Aurich) resigned, and threw the whole Cabinet question open again. The Irreconcilablcs threatened to bike up arms if the Ministry was formed exclusively of members of the Right. The authorities had made preparations to repress disorder, and had stationed a corps of the Civil Guard around the Palace of the Cortes. ’ - A special from Berlin states that two deaths from cholera occurred in that city on the 27th. The inhabitants were reported as being greatly alarmed. According to a Vienna telegram of the 28th, complete anarchy prevailed in Bosnia, Turkey, caused by the persceutiou of Christians by Mohammedans. In one district 270 Christians were murdered within six weeks, and no efforts had been made to arrest their murderers. Foreign representatives to Turkey demanded an investigation, and called upon the authorities to afford protection to tlic persecuted people. The murders had greatly alarmed the Christians, and many were emigrating. An earthquake in the North of Italy on the morning of the 29th, did considerable damage. At Feletto, aliout thirty-five miles north of Venice, a church was destroyed, and thirtyeight persons were killed, and in four villages killed and many injured. Great damage was also done .in the town of Ballono, on the River Pire, fifty miles north of Venice. A severe thun-der-storm at Vienna, on the night of the same day, flooded the Exhibition grounds and did much injury. The American and the German galleries were badly damaged. The roof of the Chicago Restaurant was driven in, and the building and contents were ruined. The English Government lias received dispatches from Sir Samuel Baker, dated May 29. He reports that the Upper Nile region, as far south as the equator, has been aiihexed to Egypt, and that the inhabitants are orderly. The slave trade has been suppressed. H<j deems his mission a complete success. A meeting was held in London recently for the purpose of protesting against tlic introduction of tlie confesaional into tlie Church of England. The receipts for internal revenue in the United Kingdom for tlie last fiscal year show a decrease of £370,000, as compared witli the preceding one. It is stated in a London telegram of the Ist that the German Government had just invested $10,000,000 inUnited States bonds, principally of five per cent, funded, A Berlin telegram of the Ist says that the weavers of that city, to the number of 8,000, had struck work. They demand an increase of 33 per cent, in their wages, which the masters refuse to grant. •The Spanish Cortes, by a nearly unanimous vote, has-passed a bill presented by Senor Margall, granting extraordinary powers to the Government. Spanish advices received on the 2d state that the Carlists, after taking Fort Irurzun on tlie 26th ult., were attacked by a column under Castanon, 2,000 strong, between Lccunibcreri and Jabcn. Five battalions of Carlists under Elio defeated the Republicans, and took caunons, baggage, aud eighty prisoners, including Major Ureta and one captain. The lossof Hie Republicans is estimated at 300. Tlic Carlist loss is nearly the same. Dorregarry, chief of the staff, was severely wounded. Nouvilas’ column had arrived at Pampcluna. THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the Ist at USX@HSX. Washington’s headquarters at Morristown, N. J., was recently sold at auction and bought for presentation to the State for $25,000. Tlic sash worn by Washington when he was Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge sold for SI,OOO. In the Walworth trial in New York on the 26th, tlie prisoner was given a good character by his uncle, brother of the murdered man, and other witnesses. His mother’s testimony was principally devoted to the Artory of her married life, with Air. Walworth, and the manner of their separation. Her husband was always in the habit, she says, of carrying a pistol. Two letters were submitted by the defense, one from Frank to his uncle, the last he wrote before the murder, and the other, Mr. Walworth’s last letter to bis wife. The latter is an appeal and demand to be allowed to see his children, written in a style of high tragedy, and interspersed with threats of killfrig his wife and,, himself in case she had taught his children to hate him. It warns Mrs- W’aiworth to keep Frank out of his way. This letter never reached Mrs. Walworth. It was intercepted by Frank, and was the occasion of his last journdy to New York. Before leaving he wrote his?uncle, enclosing the intercepted’ letter, and stating he was about to go to his father in New York; but there is little, if anything, in his letter indicating an intention of taking his father’s life.

The Chicago Tribune of the 27th says: “ Five of the largest railroads doing business with this city have signed the agreement to issue no more passes after July 1,. except to employes and to those entitled by contract to receive them. These roads are tho Illinois Central, the Burlington & Quincy, the Rock Island, the Northwestern, and the St. Paul. The Chicago & Alton Road refuses to join the movement because it is not sweeping enougji. Its President announces that every pass heretofore issued by that road will be recalled July 1, and no more passes will be issued in any case. The Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western, the Peoria & Rock Island, and the Rockford, Rock Island <fc St. Louis Railroads declined to sign the agreement, but for what reason is not stated." Captain Neidig, of the Cedar Rapids Republican, has been elected Chairman of the lowa Republican Central .Committee. The following is Judge Craig’s unique oath of office, filed in the Secretary of State’s office at Springfield, Ill.: “State of Illinois, Knox County: I, Alfred M. Craig, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, elected in the Fifth Judicial District, da solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, according to the best of my ability; that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, without sale or denial, promptly, without delay, conformably to the laws, without -favor, objection, or partiality, to the best of my judgment and abilities. Alfbed M. Craig.” Subscribed and sworn to before me, the 14th day of June, A. D. 1873. Lewis Andrews, Justice of the Peace. Two little boys in Chicago, named Evans, undertook to kindle a fire on the 26th, by the use of kerosene, when the can exploded, and both children were badly, and the elder fatally, burned. The Catholic clergy of Brazil are forbidden by the Council of State to publish the bulls of the Pope until the Government has accorded its permission, and the same authority deny any civil effect to sentences of excommunication. Tlie steamer Great Eastern arrived at Heart’a Content on the 27th, having been entirely successful in laying the new ocean cable. A Washington dispatch of the 27th says the Attorney General would, in the course of sevcral days, forward to the Secretary of War his opinion relative to the unsettled balances of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and there was reason to believe he would recommend suits against Generals Howard aiffi Balloch for the recovery •f inonev alleged to be due the Governuient. The Secretary of the Interior has made an important ruling as follows: When a home-' stead is canceled and a homestead claimant is found on tlie land at the date of such cancellation, together with others, who all design taking the land under pre-emption laws, the homesteader being legally upon the land, his settlement right rests instantly on such cancellation, while tlie claimants having gone on the land while it was covered by said homestead, were trespassers, and the homestead claimant is the preferred party under the preemption laws. Albert 11. Smith was recently executed at Springfield, Mass., for the murder, in November last, of Charles H. Sackett, of Westfield. A joint resolution, censuring the recent Congress for its action in raising the salaries of its own members, has been passed by the Lower House of the New Hampshire Legislature. The jury in the Woodliull-Claflin-Blood case, under the instructions of Judge Blatchford, returned a verdict on the 27th, of “not guilty.” The Judge decided that newspapers were not included in “obscene publications” in the act of 1872, under which the indictment was drawn.

In the W’aiworth trial, at New York, on the 27th, a letter was produced in evidence and read, from the senior W’aiworth to his wife, traducing in the strongest terms the memory of his father, assailing vilely his brother and sister and wife, and in awful language threatening, in case bis wife would not see that he had something for his entire life, to kill Frank and Tracy, and wipe out the name of Walworth forever. The closing portion of the letter was characterized in a special manner by obscenity and blasphemy. Mrs. Walworth then testified' that, after reading this letter, Frank fell into a fit, which lasted for an hour. She further testified that when Frank was seven or eight years old he fell’ on the hearth and fractured his skull. On tgo occasions he received injuries on a base-ball ground, and complained of his head for some months afterwards. William Rieheson, who has been twice tried at Xenia, Ohio, for the murder of William Fogwell, the juries rendering a .verdict of “guilty of murder in tlie first degree” in both trials, lias been sentenced to be hung on the 17th of October next. He protested his innocence of tlie crime. There were six deaths from cholera reported in Cincinnati on the 27th. Another Chicago servant-girl kindled the fire with kerosene, the other day. Her arms and the upper part of her body were badly burned, but her injuries were not thought to be fatal, j.. The grain crops in Utah are reported as promising largely. ’ _ A noteworthy event in the lumber trade of Chicago occurred on the 27th. A raft containing 650,000 feet of rough logs arrived from Ludington, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, one hundred and sixty miles distant, having been successfully towed across the lake, being sixty-three hours on the way. This is thought, in Chicago, to be the opening of a new era in the lumber traffic, as it is claimed that the logs can be rafted in this manner, and cut into lumber in that city at a coixsidcrable reduction on the price of the manufactured article. Senator Matt. H. Carpenter, on the evening of the 26th, delivered a lengthy speech at Janesville, Wis., in defense of the action of the late Congress on the Increased salary question. A colored man named Carpenter, who was sentenced to be hanged at Dover, Del., on the 27th, for an attempted outrage and burglary, has been respited to December 28. The jury in tlie case of Cohen and Railey, on trial for an attempt to shoot Governor Kellogg of-Louislana, rendered a verdict of not guilty. The number of cholera interments in Memphis on the 27th was nine, and comparatively few new cases reported. Twenty-four cases were reported in Nashville on the 26th, and twenty deaths on the 27th. The disease was abating. • The Mexican Border Claims Commission 5E the clalmk for damages submitted to them. Their final report, which has been sent in to Secretary Fish, covers 400 cases, involving claims to the amount of $11,000,000. Secretary Richardson has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New. York to give notice that during the month of July he will sell $1,600,000 in gold,.on the first, second, fourth and fifth Thursdays each, and $1,500,000 oq

the third Thursday, and that he will purchase $500,000 of bonds on the third Wednesday of the month. The Brooklyn Eagle of the 28th says: “The Examining Committee of Plymouth Church had received from F. West a specific charge of slander against Henry C. Bowen. It is charged he has circulated slanders against Henry'Ward Beecher, which are false, and his (Bowen’s) expulsion is called for. An investigation is to be made immediately. Mr. Beecher is desirous that the investigation should be made at once. The matter is referred to the following-named Deacons and members of the Examining Committee: Elmer H. Garbut, D. H. Hawkins, H. B. White, Lysander W. Manchester, George H. Day, Daniel W. Talmage, K. W. Ropes, J. T. Howard, C. C. Duncan, M. K. Moody, R. D. Benedict, Samuel E. Belcher, C. 11. Morton, Thomas J. Tilney, George W. Brush, H. W. Beecher, 8. B. Halliday, ex-officio. Four Deaconesses are members of this Examining Committee. There were fourteen deaths from cholera in Cincinnati on the 28th, and seven on the 29th. A Parsons (Kansas) telegram of the 28th says the wheat crop had been nearly all harvested in that part of Kansas, and was saved in good order. The Chicago Journal of the 28th says: “Our advices regarding the growing crops throughout the Northwest are, as a rule, very encouraging. The young com is doing finely. The potato is the only doubtful crop, the “bugs” being extremely destructive in many localities. The books of Dtiden, Freeres <fc Co., have been seized by the Custom House officers in New York on the charge that the firm has, during a scries of years, carried on. a systematic course of swindling on the revenue department. The principal house of the firm is in Brussels, and they have branch offices in Nottingham, London, St. Petersburg, San Francisco and New York. At Salem, Ind., on the morning of the 29th, about forty masked men broke into the. jail where Delos Heffron was confined for the murder, a few days before, of Dr. Halstead, and, after pelting the prisoner with fire-balls and pistol-bullets, took him out and hanged him. Great excitement was caused by the affair. Jesse R. Grant, father of President Grant, died at his home in Covington, Ky., on the evening of the 29th, of general debility. The President, though expected in a special train, had not arrived at the time of his death. His death had been hourly expected for several days. There were nine cholera interments at Mem phis on the 28th. There were eight deaths < from that disease at Nashville on the 28th, and ten on the 29th. At Baltimore on the 28th, James West, colored, was convicted of the murder of Anna Gibson, and Levin Palmer, colored, of an outrage on a white girl, and both were sentenced to be hanged. Another indictment has been found against Woodhull, Claflin and Blood, under the Obscene Publication act of 1873. A recent Washington dispatch says it was thought by well-informed people in that city that the Hon. E. R. Hoar will be appointed Chief-Justice at the assembling of the next Congress. It was reported on the 30th that the condition of Vice-President Wilson was such as to again cause bis friends much apprehension as to the final result. Clinton L. Merriam, of New York, has sent his back pay to General Spinner with directions to convey it into the Treasury, which has been done.

In the Walworth trial, on the 80th, Mrs. Walworth testified to acts of presumed insanity committed by her late husband at various times. Mr. O’Conor presented more of Walworth’s letters in evidence, one of which was so vile that it eould not be read out in open court. General Martin P. Hardin, brother of Mrs. Walworth, testified that the deceased had pointed a pistol at him on one occasion, had sent him several threatening letters, and also a kind of infernal machine, loaded with powder and ball. Considerable evidence was adduced, regarding the eccentric habits and moroseness of the prisoner for some time prior ,to the shooting. The total receipts of the National Treasury from internal revenue during the fiscal year ending June 30 were $115,670,727, being over $5,000,000 in excess of the estimates. Ten or twelve persons were killed by the accidental explosion of powder in a building at Virginia City, Nevada, on the 30th. A Laramie (W. T.) dispatch says that the Ute Indians encamped in and. about Bawlins Springs have been accused of committing various depredations recently, and on the 28th a party of citizens .from Rawlins went to one of the Vte camps, when a quarrel ensued, in which the citizens killed ten or twelve Indians and took sixteen ponies, a- lot of blankets, saddles, e'tc., and returned to Rawlins. The Laramie Sentinel says: “The Indians are very much excited, and a general Ute war is feared in consequence, which will seriously interfere with the timber, mining and other Interests throughout this region.” A New York journal of the 30th says it was Improbable that any immediate investigation would take place in the Beecher-Bowen-Tilton case. The Brooklyn Eagle of the same date publishes the following card from Mr.Beecher: To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: lu a long and active life in Brooklyn, it has rarely happened that the Eagle and myself have been in accord on questions of common concern to our fellow-citizens. lam for this reason compelled to acknowledge the unsolicited confidence and regard of which the columns of the Eagle of late bear testimony. I have jnst returned to the city to leam that application has been made to Mrs. Victoria Woodbull for a letter of mine, supposed to contain information respecting certain infamous stories against me. I have no objection to have the Eagle state, in any way It deems fit, that Mrs. Woodhull, or any other person or persons, who may have letters of mine in their possession, have my cordial consent to publish them. In this connection, and at this time, I will only add that the stories and rumors which for some time past have been circulated about me are grossly untrue, and I stamp them in general and in particular utterly false. Respectfully, Hbmbt Winn Bkkchzb.

There were thirteen deaths from cholera in Cincinnati bn the 30lh, and eight in Nashville. There were also reports of the cholera in St. Louis, but all the cases resembling that disease could be traced to the use of impure well water, imprudent diet, or dissipation. There was no alarm In the city, nor was there any apprehension, A dispatch from New Orleans says that a duel was fought near Montgomery Station, on the morning of the Ist, between ex-Judge William H. Cooley and R- B. Rhett, Jr., of the Picayune, in which Cooley was killed at the second shot. The difficulty grew out of an article published in the Picayune, and the reply from Judge Cooley, published in the Timet. Colonel Jihctt was not touched. A special dispatch from Dea Moines on the Ist says It was rumored there that “one of the higher courts of lowa will announce an opinion that will overthrow, so far as lowa ship-

pers arc concerned, the present Illinois tariff law. The judge holds that a contract with a railway company operating a line in both lowa and Illinois, the contract being made in lowa for through shipments to any point in Illinois, will be good, even at less rates than allowed by the Illinois law.” The following is the public debt statement July 1: Six per cent, bonds, $1.281.288-6J<J Five per cent, bonds 4i4,0w,»w coin bonds. $1,695,806,950 Lawful money debt. ■ $ 44 'S?’2?!? Matured debt .•••’ Legal-tender notes 356,079,967 Certificates of deposit ; 31.730,000 Fractional currency «.7W.3» Coin certificates 39,460.000 interest 42,856,652 Total debt ■■■■■ $2,276,839,644 Cash In Treasury—eSnency .. <>.788,529 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provided by law 31,730,000 Total in Treasury... i.. 129,020,931 Debt, less cash in Treasury * 2 ’ l4 Decrease during the month..Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in lawfulmouey. principal outstanding.. $64,623,512.00 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 1.J88.70>.36 Interest paid by United States....... $13,109,280.90 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 4,223,140,82 Balance of interest paid by the United States $14,286,140.08 There were seven deaths in Cincinnati from cholera on the Ist. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has announced a ruling that parties making entries under the first section of the timber culture act of March 3, 1873, are entitled to only one year to complete the planting of the prescribed area with trees. General W. H. Sidell, U. S. A., died in New York City on the Ist. He graduated at West Pointin 1833. z In reply to a letter of inquiry from a Senator, as to the period at which the undrawn back pay of Congressmen reverts to the Treasury, Comptroller Taylor writes that the unexpended appropriations for the pay referred to cannot be carried into tire surplus fund until June 30, 1875—in other words, any Congressman can draw his back pay at any time prior to the above date. Professors Wise and Donaldson, the aeronauts, are building a balloon in New York City, a private corporation bearing the ex.penscs, in which they propose to make a voyage to Europe, starting about August 20. The funeral of Jesse R. Grant was held at the Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Covington, Ky., on the Ist. It was largely attended. President Grant arrived there early on the morning of the 30th, aiid he,. Orville Grant and Mrs. Cramer were the children of the deceased present at the funeral.